The concern is that, as this horse meat has been introduced illicitly into various suppliers' product, there's no quality/safety guarantee. Because of that, I'd regard with even more suspicion than I would the meat on offer at a dodgy kebab shop.

I'd guess that eating horse that has been raised under guaranteed food-standard conditions, as they do in France, poses little or no problem for a lot of people.

some issue with the potential for phenylbutazone contamination. The company responsible for the current transgression is in France.

This is the real issue; not that it's horse, but that it's horse that has not been considered fit for human consumption.

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Charming. Not that I'm sure that detailed knowledge of pot noodle ingredients shows good education anyway.

A detailed knowledge of Pot Noodles does suggest having been a university student at some point. See also Marmite and Sosmix, as anyone who ever watched the execrable late night ITV programme 'Get Stuffed' would remember.

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Just what I wanted to say. I'm quite prepared to eat horse but it's not on sale legitimately.

Likewisem but as my wife pointed out what if those horses that went into these burgers etc had been treated with Phenol Butizone or Ketamine? This is basically about traceability along the food supply chain

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What I did wonder the other day was, before this came up, by law there can be so many parts of insects and animal hairs and stuff in food, normal food like peanut butter, etc. I wonder how veggies feel about it and deal with it.